How to search for candidates
Open AI search and describe who you need, or switch to Find similar, Job description or Boolean search. Narrow the results with filters (location, title, company, skills, pipeline history and more), each with a live count, and exclude anyone already in a process or contacted recently.
Ways to search#
| Mode | Use it to |
|---|---|
| Natural-language search | Describe who you’re looking for, in your own words. |
| Find similar | Find people like someone you already have, from their title, skills and tags. |
| Job description | Paste a job description and find people who match it. |
| Boolean search | Write an exact query with AND, OR, NOT, quotes and parentheses. |
| Filters only | Skip the words and filter the whole workspace. |
Search matches names, headlines, locations, resumes and tags across everyone you’re allowed to see. Relevance comes first, with a small boost for strong scorecards and for how far someone got in an earlier process.
Filters#
Filters run across the whole workspace, with or without search words, and show a live count as you change them. They’re grouped as General, Locations, Job, Company, Skills or keywords, Likely to switch, Pipeline, Rediscovery, Education, and Boolean & name. Chips come from what your workspace has, and any chip can be set to exclude instead. Skills can be pinned as required.
Leave people out#
- Anyone in a process on an open role, or hired in the last year.
- Anyone contacted from a project in the last N days.
- Anyone at a current client (agencies).
- Excluded companies you list.
Past candidates#
On a role’s page, Find past candidates opens a search for people from earlier searches who reached a screen or scored 3 or more, and aren’t on this role yet. Rediscovery filters do the same anywhere: the furthest stage reached, a minimum scorecard, archive reason and earlier roles.
Sourcing projects#
A sourcing project keeps a search’s criteria, shortlist, owner and outreach status together. Pick one at the top of AI search, shortlist people into it from the results, and enroll the shortlist in a sequence.
Questions about search for candidates#
Search leaves out words about who someone is (age, origin, family, health and the like) and tells you which ones it dropped. OpenATS never matches or ranks people on who they are. See AI safeguards and limits.
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